As part of their History topic on World War II, Year 3 went on an Evacuee Day to Stibbington. The day started on the platform at Nene Valley Railway where the children got the sense of having stepped off a train into a village that they had never visited before – just as the real evacuees would have done. The village school’s Headmaster met us and told the children where each of them would be billeted. The children had been given the names of children who actually were evacuated to Stibbington during the war and, as we walked through the village, they were shown the houses where they actually stayed.
After our walk round the village, we went to a 1940s classroom, where we filled in our Identity Cards, learnt to write with a ‘dippy’ ink pen, listened to a message from Princess Elizabeth and even had to put on our gas masks and shelter during an air raid.